‘ton in terrible accents.
full knowledge accuse the prisoner of
SYNOPSIS
Barbara = Clarke, belle of
Puritan Salem Village, falls in
love with dark, handsome Roger
Coverman, a fugitive from Vir-
ginia with a price on his head.
Tituba, a Negro slave, is accused
by the superstitious villagers of
practicing’ witchcraft. She con-
fesses and under duress names
as her accomplices - four Salem
women including Barbara. Swift-
ly before this, Roger leaves
Salem for Boston where he hopes
to charter a ship to take Bar-
bara and him away from the
law. Returning to Salem, the
treacherous captain of the ship
decides to kidnap Roger and to
turn him over to the authorities
for the price on his head. Bar-
bara witnesses the ensuing fight
and capture. She promises to
wait for Roger's return. Mean-
while, she must stand trial for
witchcraft.
~~
The full court
CHAPTER VII
“Barbara Clarke, you are hereby
indicted and arraigned on charge of!
having covenanted with the Devil,|
and of practicing the’ damnable arts
of witchcraft.”
Chief Justice Laughton delivered
the charge, on behalf of the full court
of five. Through the assemblage ran
a murmur of dread and hate.
A month in prison had wasted
Barbara’s body and whitened her
face, but it had not diminished her
spirit. Pride and steadfastness still
helped her to face the - inquisitors.
She stood alone; nobody was permit-
ted to advise or aid her.
“As you hope for the mercy of
God, are you now prepared to con
fess and repent?” demanded the
Chief Justice, his tones heavy with
threat.
“I bave nothing confess.”
“Summon Tituba, the black.”
The aged slave, half palsied with
terror, was led forth.
“Do you, Tituba, as you expect
grace, name and identify the accused
as a consort of Satan?”
“I—I—1I does, Mas'r Judge Laugh-
ton.” She kept her look averted from
the prisoner.
“Have you taught and performed
with her spells and sorceries?”
She cast a fearful glance at Elder
Morse and whispered a half audible
affirmative.
“Speak up
"
adjured Judge Laugh-
“I warrant
you found better voice for your Sa-
tanic master Do you www with
witchcraft?”
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“Yes, suh. Oh, my God! Oh, my
Mas’t God!” she whispered to her-
self.
“Tituba!” It was
call.
“Silence!” bellowed Morse.
are not allowed to speak here.”
Judge Sewall who, alone, of the
court, had not the “hanging face” of
the persecutor, lifted the eyes which
he had shaded with a cupped hand.
“The conduct of this trial is not with-
in your province, Elder Morse. Let
her be heard.”
“Tituba, look at me.”
“I cain’ look at you. I cain’ do it,
Missy.”
“Why can’t you?”
“You know why, Missy,” moaned
the wretched old creature.
“Yes; I know,” said the girl gently
and sorrowfully. “You can’t look at
me and tell lies. Not even to save
yourself from the gallows-tree.”
Brandishing her arms in agony,
the black woman dropped to her
knees, lapsed forward upo= her face,
and wallowed, moaning incoherently.
Barbara's clear
“You
condemned Barbara to be hanged within the fortnight
She was hastily dragged away by di-
rection of the Chief Justice.
“Bunyan Bilge,” he snapped.
The town drunkard, sober and
scared, slunk forward. He satisfac-
torily established the presence of the
devil in Salem, by testifying to hav-
ing beheld him in the woods on the
day of the minister's house-raising,
and having fled from the fiery breath
of his roaring, and the dire threat of
his horn.
“Horn?” queried Judge Sewall
skeptically. “Surely Old Nick would
be equipped with the full pair.
Would you swear that the devil who
put you to your heels did not come
out of the bunghole of an ale-cask?”
“It was Satan’s own self,” insisted
the witness, “and him with the one
horn. It gleamed from his forehead
like steel, and he'd have spitted me
like a roast fowl with it, if I hadn't
made my legs my friend.”
“Step down,” cut in Judge Laugh-
ton, giving his associate judge a sour
look. “Timothy Goode to the stand.”
Poor Timothy, most reluctant, but
well-knowing that hell fire would be
his sure portion if he abated one jot
of the truth, took a long breath as he
advanced.
“Timothy,” the stern Justice ad-
dressed him after consulting notes,
“do you witness to a monstrous, black
figure in the thicket near the minis
ter's house, at night?"
“Y-y-yes, sir.”
“Describe it.”
“It had a big, black head. and one
shiny, sharp horn.”
“Again that heretical single horn,”
commented Judge Sewall, skeptically.
N
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Barbara |
“And on that night was
Clarke away from bed and home?”
“Y-y-yes, sir,” faltered Timothy.
“And you do now confirm that
this was Satan that you saw, and that
the accused met him there?”
Unable to control his speech,
little witness gulped and nodded.
“Then, for the peace of your soul,
do you now swear that you fear hate
and forever abjure the said Barbara
Clarke and all her works?”
“Yes,” choked the boy, after
agonizing hesitation.
“Oh, Timmy! Timmy!” cried Bar-
bara, and at the grief and broken
love of that reproach he ran to her;
cast his arms about her knees, and
clung there, sobbing, until he was
torn away.
Thus two witnesses had proved a
disappointment to the prosecution.
It was apparent that the case now
hinged upon the girl’s association with
the devil; that, if firmly established,
would serve to hang her. So thought
Jeremiah Adams, who was permitted
to see her at recess.
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called to bolster the “weakened testi-
mony of witchly practice. Conscience
had begun to work Sin ‘her; she was
too frightened to-add * materially to
the case. But Timothy, recalled, was
forced to give his damning testimony
regarding the dance, with the dark
and invisible gallant, and Abigail
Goode, with a face like death, con-
firmed it. Barbara had no answer
for this.
The full court condemned her to
be hanged within the fortnight.
(To Be Continued)
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“But—but when he comes back he
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“I'm afraid he will never come
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“Then let me, too, die,” she cried
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He made a final appeal. “It is his
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“I mean Roger, my own kinsman.
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